Quote Originally Posted by papaver View Post
Oh they will if they'll have to pay as much for gas as we Europeans do.
papa, I struggle with some of the American/European comparisons:

- we drive more, because we're more spread out
- because we're so spread out, rapid transit across regions is way too expensive to build
- one might argue that Canada is big and has more available, but remember that almost all of Canada's population lives in the southern 50 miles of the country...it might as well be Chile
Off topic:
- our cellular is weaker, because we have so much land mass
- we don't speak languages because most of us have to travel a long way to regularly encounter someone who doesn't speak English...

Give us $10/gallon gas, and we still only afford rapid transit in the big cities...I'm confident that we'll get there...but it's a much bigger investment for us because of our sheer size.

Perspective: The US is 309x bigger than Belgium by land area, but only 27x bigger by population. We'd have to tax everyone 10 times more to build the same infrastructure (and taxes are un-American)